What is hypernatremia

Update Date: 2025-10-21 Source: Network

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Blood sodium can also reflect and reflect our physical condition to a certain extent. If the blood sodium content of normal people exceeds a certain value, it will cause hypernatremia. Maybe some people don't quite understand what kind of disease it is. Let's talk about what hypernatremia is.

What is hypernatremia

First: hypernatremia refers to the situation of high blood sodium (usually > 145 mmol / L) and high blood osmotic pressure. Except for individual cases (excessive liquid containing sodium salt, etc.), the disease is mainly caused by water loss, sometimes accompanied by sodium loss, but the degree of water loss is greater than that of sodium loss. This is due to the high osmotic pressure outside the cell, which can suck the water out of the cell.

Second, hypernatremia mainly causes symptoms of the nervous system. The onset of acute hypernatremia is sudden, mainly manifested as apathy, drowsiness, progressive muscle tone increase, tremor, dyskinesia, convulsion, epileptic seizures, and even coma and death. In infants, vomiting, fever and dyspnea are common. The symptoms of chronic hypernatremia are mild, but not obvious at the initial stage. In severe cases, the main manifestations are irritability or indifference, increased muscle tension, deep tendon hyperreflexia, convulsions or convulsions.

Third: concentrated hypernatremia is caused by excessive water loss, more water loss than sodium loss. Hyperosmotic water loss caused by various reasons is the main cause of hypernatremia. * * hypernatremia include primary aldosteronism, corticosteroid due to different causes, excessive intake of sodium, excessive sodium intake, brain retention, brain injury, cerebrovascular accident, and pituitary tumor.

matters needing attention

Therefore, in order to avoid suffering from hypernatremia, we should control the intake of sodium in our daily diet. The causes of hypernatremia are also different, and there are different clinical symptoms according to the severity. In addition to the attention of diet, we should also take proper exercise so as to enhance our physique.